Lines within the Schenectady City School District can be a bit quirky.

In some neighborhoods, youngsters living on one side of a street go to a different school than those on the other side of the same block, Superintendent Larry Spring points out.

District leaders hope a community meeting Tuesday at the high school will ease any confusion and provide input from parents about how to redraw the current attendance zones. The goal includes reducing the number of students being bused long distances to other sections of the city.

Parents also will be able to inspect a map of the city's school districts created by a demographer to ensure that their neighborhoods are not carved up helter-skelter.

"We need the public to double-check our thinking of where those neighborhoods are," Spring said.

Another benefit of a redistricting and reconfiguration of grade levels is that it would better position the prekindergarten-to-12th-grade district of 10,000 students for the expected surge in enrollment over the next six years.

The changes call for the district to shift to a system of pre-K to fifth-grade elementary schools and sixth to eighth grades for middle school. The high school would remain grades 9 to 12.

The Tuesday gathering is one of several the district has scheduled up until the end of the year. The school board will vote on the issue in January.

The new district lines are supposed to be implemented beginning in the 2016-17 school year.

The process is being overseen by a Redistricting Subcommittee, which is being led by district Director for Planning and Accountability Lori McKenna and is made up of parents, staff and community members.

In the meantime, city residents will also get a chance during Wednesday's school board meeting to comment on proposed changes to the district's code of conduct that revolve around ways school staff members can intervene with problem students.

Spring said one of those intervention methods calls for a staff member with whom the student has a good relationship to check in on the youngster at the beginning and end of the school day to help him or her develop healthy coping skills. He said the goal is to bring down the number of student suspensions and hearings.

The latter, which Spring said dropped by 20 percent in the last school year, is triggered by a suspension of more than five days for behavior including taking a weapon to school, violence against another student or a history of unruly conduct.